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The Illiterate | Agota Kristof, Nina Bogin

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This story of exile and loss, of how, for the refugee, the country in which she eventuall settles, however kind and well-meaning its inhabitants, will always be a poor and inadequate substitute for the country of one's birth, its language always an alien thing, however proficient she becomes in it - this is the story of so many people today that it is perhaps the story of our time. This is Agota Kristof's memoirs.

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The Illiterate | Agota Kristof, Nina Bogin

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After seeing a review of her trilogy of novels recently, I became curious about Kristóf‘s writing. I was not able to find the novels at my library but found her memoir.

This is a very short read, but spoke to me in so many levels. In this book, and through short vignettes, she talks about what it felt like to emigrate to Switzerland as a refugee, learning French and publishing all her work in a language she had to learn from scratch.

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